The Raging Sandwich

"Doodling"

Update August 20 I've come up with some future missions that will be considered.

Weekly Update: Aug. 20-26 Sunday 8/20: research and come up with future missions Monday 8/21: Observe solar eclipse (may not be able to sadly, schedule for Monday and Wednesday are a bit iffy) Tuesday 8/22: make weekly video Wednesday 8/23: --- (subject to change) Thursday 8/24: research and early-design a liquid-fuel rocket Friday 8/25: research and early-design a reentry nosecone Saturday 8/26: make weekly recap Note: all these events are subject to change because of my busy schedule with school and all. Note: since I live in the south, it's been hot and humid the last few months and will continue to be the next couple weeks. Building and testing the F 1.5 motor really depends on how humid it is outside, the fuel is hygroscopic and won't work well with moisture in it. I hope you all understand! -TRS

Thanks!

Have I put this here?

Update August 19 Turns out my math was wrong for the F 1.5. It was supposed to be 1.58x the scale of the F 1 but is actually 1.62x. Everything has been corrected.

Update August 18 A few things will be delayed until further notice. I don't have the right stuff to bond the camera platform window and I probably won't have time to build the F 1.5 tomorrow. Also, since my school computer's a Chromebook and only runs on internet, it doesn't have Movie Maker (which I usually use for videos) and my home computer for some reason doesn't have it either. I will do my best to catch up! But so far this week, I have set up the notebook, finalized the F 1.5 design, designed the Mk1 nosecone, and ran simulations on the F1 rocket. Stay tuned for later updates!

Weekly update: Aug. 13-19 Sunday 8/13: --- Monday 8/14: Set up SBR notebook, establish camera platform window in Cougar Mk1 Tuesday 8/15: Finalize design of F 1.5 engine Wednesday 8/16: Establish camera platform base, design Cougar Mk1 nosecone Thursday 8/17: Run simulations on F1 rocket, make weekly video Friday 8/18: Finalize F2 engine design Saturday: Build (test?) first F 1.5 engine, make weekly recap video Notes: School started last week, so any daily progress will be small like the stuff listed above. Getting my school computer on Thursday, so I'll be uploading videos to Youtube and making more visuals. Stay tuned.

I've finished Outpost. I rewrote some parts and now my dad's my first reader, see what he thinks about it.

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It probably will, just haven't figured out what I'll do with it. And I'm still working on going all the way through July 15th, and that won't even be done today.

June 14 1963: Vostok 5 and its crew of Valeri Bykovsky was launched into orbit after numerous setbacks from the rocket and the spacecraft. It entered orbit lower than expected. It was a joint flight with Vostok 6 piloted by Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Vostok 5 returned early and landed June 19, the same day as Vostok 6. 1967: Mariner 5 was launched. It flew by Venus on October 19. 1975: Venera 10 was launched. It entered Venus orbit and separated the lander on October 23, landing 2 days later. 1985: Vega 2's balloon entered Venus' atmosphere 1991: STS-40 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. 2008: STS-124 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. 2010: Ukrainian cosmonaut Leonid Kizim died. He flew on Salyut 6 Expedition 5, Salyut 7 Expedition 3, and Mir Expedition 1. He was part of the first crew to ever fly between two different space stations in one mission and spent over a year in space (374 days).

June 9 1980: Soyuz T-2 and its crew of 2 landed back at Earth. June 10 1929: James McDivitt was born. He flew on Gemini 4 and Apollo 9. 1969: The Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program was cancelled. 1995: The Spektr module was docked to the Mir space station. 2003: The Mars Spirit rover was launched. It would land on Mars on January 3, 2004. June 11 1928: A German rocket glider was flown by Freidrich Stamer. Booster rockets would launch it from its launch rail and another rocket would keep it in flight after takeoff. 1976: The design for the Soviet space shuttle Buran was selected. 1985: The Vega 1 balloon entered Venus' atmosphere. 1986: Chesley Bonestell died. He was the illustrator of many of Wernher von Braun's space ideas. 2013: Shenzhou 10 and its crew of 3 was launched into orbit on a 15-day flight. It docked to the Tiangong-1 station on June 13, did a redocking exercise on June 23, and landed on June 26. June 12 1963: NASA Administrator James Webb ruled out Mercury MA-10, a second 1-day flight of the Mercury spacecraft. 1967: Venera 4 was launched. It was a Venus atmospheric probe. The descent craft entered the atmosphere on October 18 and sent signals to Earth. 1998: STS-91 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. June 13 1944: The first attacks of the German V-1 were used against London. 4 of 11 launched hit the city. 1962: A recoverable meteoroid experiment utilizing the Mercury spacecraft was proposed by the Manned Spacecraft Center. A sheet of aluminum would be extended from the spacecraft for 2 weeks, gather orbital meteoroids, and recover them from inside the capsule. 1970: The Apollo 13 Review Board published the result of their investigation into the Apollo 13 accident. A heating element in the fuel cell liquid oxygen tank had burnt off its insulation resulting in an explosion. 1993: Donald Slayton died. He was chosen in the original Mercury 7 astronauts. He was grounded for medical reasons but was assigned astronaut commander, assigning crews to missions. He later flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).

Have fun with the beds and people staying up till 3 am being really loud

There's only been one that I remember

Nein @NSEP

June 8 1937: Bruce McCandless II was born. He was an astronaut from 1966 to 1990. He flew on STS-41-B and STS-31. He flew an MMU on 41-B to do the first untethered spacewalk. 1961: A rocket belt made by Bell Aerosystems was demonstrated publicly for the first time by Harold Graham. 1965: Luna 6 was launched. It was an attempted landing mission but missed the Moon entirely after it accidentally fired all its fuel at one time during a mid-course correction on June 9. 1975: Venera 9 was launched. It was an orbiter/lander mission. After achieving orbit, the lander separated from the orbiter on October 20. A successful landing was achieved on the 22nd. 2007: STS-117 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 14-day mission to the ISS. It delivered two truss segments. 4 spacewalks were conducted. Astronaut Clayton Anderson transferred for a stay on the station and Suni Williams returned to Earth in his place.

June 6 1932: David Scott was born. He flew on Gemini 8, Apollo 9, and Apollo 15. He flew with Neil Armstrong on Gemini 8 to become the first crew to dock in space. He became the 7th man to walk on the Moon on Apollo 15 and the first to drive the lunar rover. 1966: Gemini 9 and its crew of Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford landed back at Earth. 1967: Astronaut Edward Givens Jr. died in a car accident. He was selected in 1966 to be an astronaut but never flew into space. 1971: Soyuz 11 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a 24-day mission. It was the first manned mission to a space station, Salyut 1. The flight would be cut short a couple of days before a fatal reentry. 1979: Soyuz 34 was launched into orbit. It was an unmanned mission to Salyut 6 for a return vehicle for the Soyuz 32 crew after Soyuz 33's propulsion system failure. 1985: Soyuz T-13 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a mission to Salyut 7. 1999: STS-96 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. June 7 1962: Wernher von Braun recommended to the NASA Office of Manned Spaceflight that a lunar orbit rendezvous method be used for Apollo lunar landing missions. 1965: Gemini 4 and its crew of Jim McDivitt and Ed White landed back at Earth. It landed 40 miles away from its target site after a guidance computer failure. 1971: Soyuz 11 docked automatically with Salyut 1. 1973: The Skylab 2 crew conducted an EVA to release a jammed solar panel. 1983: Venera 16 was launched. It was a joint mission with Venera 15. Both entered Venus orbit 4 degrees apart to map the surface. 1988: Soyuz TM-5 and its Soviet/Bulgarian crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to Mir. It docked to the station on June 9. 2011: Soyuz TMA-02M and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on June 9.

@Ultimate Steve

June 4 2010: SpaceX's Falcon 9 commerical booster was first launched. June 5 1919: James Fletcher was born. He was the NASA Administrator from 1971-1977 and 1986-1989. 1927: Johannes Winkler formed The Society for Space Travel, or VfR, the first society for space travel. Early European space pioneers like Hermann Oberth and Walter Hohmann would come to join the group. 1966: Gene Cernan attempted an EVA on Gemini 9. The planned test of the MMU was cancelled after Cernan became fatigued, hot, and his visor got fogged over to where he couldn't see. 1980: Soyuz T-2 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a 4-day mission. It was a test flight of the new Soyuz-T spacecraft where they docked with Salyut 6. 1991: STS-40 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 9-day mission. It carried the Spacelab module in the payload bay for the duration of the flight for the crew to conduct experiments in. 2002: STS-111 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 14-day mission. The launch was delayed 5 times from May 2. It switched out the Expedition 4/5 crews and delivered the MBS Mobile Base System, exterior equipment racks, and the Leonardo MPLM module. 2004: Ronald Reagan, the US President from 1981-'89, died. He initiated the "Star Wars" program and overwhelmed the Soviet Union with a vast aerospace buildup that helped it collapse.

June 2 1930: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was born. He flew on Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2. He became the third man to step on the Moon on Apollo 12. 1957: The Manhigh I balloon flew to 97,000 feet with Joseph Kittinger aboard. 1978: Yi So-yeon was born. She was the first Korean in space and flew on ISS Expedition 14. 1983: Venera 15 was launched in a joint mission with Venera 16 to map Venus. Both were inserted into a polar orbit just one day apart from another. 1998: STS-91 and its crew of 6 was launched into orbit on a 10-day mission. It was the final Shuttle-Mir mission. It recovered US astronaut Andy Thomas from the station and took Russian space chief Valeri Ryumin to the station for inspection. 2003: Mars Express, the ESA's first Mars spacecraft, was launched. It carried with it the Beagle 2 which failed to land successfully. June 3 1965: Gemini 4 and its crew of Jim McDivitt and Ed White was launched into orbit on a 4-day mission. It was the second manned mission in the Gemini program. The planned stationkeeping exercise was scrapped. 4 and a half hours into the flight, Ed White stepped out of the spacecraft to conduct America's first Extravehicular Activity (EVA). He floated around connected by a tether for 20 minutes with a maneuvering gun. Computer problems caused the capsule to have to come in at a different trajectory when landing. 1966: Gemini 9 and its crew of Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford was launched into orbit on a 3-day mission. They tested 3 different types of rendezvous with the Gemini ATDA. Docking was to be attempted but the ATDA docking shroud had not deployed correctly. Cernan attempted an EVA to fly the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) on the back of the ship. Heat loads, exhaustion, his visor fogging up, and the lack of handholds on the spacecraft led to the EVA almost ending in disaster. 1977: Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lysenko died in an aircraft crash. He was a proposed Buran shuttle cosmonaut. 1980: Soyuz 35 and its crew of 2 landed back at Earth.

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